Our English Orps

[lildinkem]

Quote:
I don't get a whole lot of eggs from these girls. About an egg every other day at best when their layin. Or like sweetness who MAY give me 25 eggs a year. So every egg goes into the bators. I still have 3 foam bators packed of only Orp eggs.

Here is one more pic of the kids. Much more fluff at such an early age.

http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx94/lildinkem/000_7199.jpg?t=1281657659

Is it my imagination, or do those birds look almost silkied?? My eyes are bad, but still...

Please not Silkies. lololol

 

[Katy]

Quote:
Maybe you should cut back on hatching till you can house them all in decent conditions. It's not fair to any bird or animal to make them live in their own filth.

That is very true. IF I only had a dozen or a hundred they get the same filthy treatment. I am very hard on my chicks. Surprisingly I don't many. I've cleaned my pens and seen a chick poop only to see another run up and eat it. Even with food right there next to them.
They spend 2 months inside weather permitted they go out then after. And these guys are right on schedule on heading outside. Then they spend another two months in portable pens before heading to the permanant pens.

You have got to be kidding me....bragging about raising birds in those kinds of conditions?! You should be embarrassed, not acting like it's something to be proud of.

 

[Katy]

Quote:
I don't get a whole lot of eggs from these girls. About an egg every other day at best when their layin. Or like sweetness who MAY give me 25 eggs a year. So every egg goes into the bators. I still have 3 foam bators packed of only Orp eggs.

Here is one more pic of the kids. Much more fluff at such an early age.

http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx94/lildinkem/000_7199.jpg?t=1281657659

Is it my imagination, or do those birds look almost silkied?? My eyes are bad, but still...

They aren't silkied...they're dirty and wet from living in that nasty brooder he's got them in.

 

[lildinkem]

Quote:
That is very true. IF I only had a dozen or a hundred they get the same filthy treatment. I am very hard on my chicks. Surprisingly I don't many. I've cleaned my pens and seen a chick poop only to see another run up and eat it. Even with food right there next to them.
They spend 2 months inside weather permitted they go out then after. And these guys are right on schedule on heading outside. Then they spend another two months in portable pens before heading to the permanant pens.

You have got to be kidding me....bragging about raising birds in those kinds of conditions?! You should be embarrassed, not acting like it's something to be proud of.

Their livestock. lolololol IF I have dead birds I would agree. BUT, my birds don't die inside. they do to predators and dogs.

 

[hcammack]

Quote:
That is very true. IF I only had a dozen or a hundred they get the same filthy treatment. I am very hard on my chicks. Surprisingly I don't many. I've cleaned my pens and seen a chick poop only to see another run up and eat it. Even with food right there next to them.
They spend 2 months inside weather permitted they go out then after. And these guys are right on schedule on heading outside. Then they spend another two months in portable pens before heading to the permanant pens.

You have got to be kidding me....bragging about raising birds in those kinds of conditions?! You should be embarrassed, not acting like it's something to be proud of.

Honestly I am surprised that any of them make it to adulthood. I would be embarrassed to post pictures of birds looking like that I won't even raise chicks in cages at all they go outside on pasture as soon as I think its warm enough. Thats my opinion of how you should raise strong healthy birds not coated in there own feces. But thats just my opinion.

Henry

 

[Renie'sPeeps]

I've cleaned my pens and seen a chick poop only to see another run up and eat it. Even with food right there next to them.

I have heard of them doing that when they have worms.

 

[lildinkem]

For two months they live inside. Not on wires, no needles, no booties are needed with my birds. And you know some folks just aren't as clean as others. That is just the way it is. I am a guy, I live in filth. And I don't get sick.

 

[Katy]

Quote:
You have got to be kidding me....bragging about raising birds in those kinds of conditions?! You should be embarrassed, not acting like it's something to be proud of.

Their livestock. lolololol IF I have dead birds I would agree. BUT, my birds don't die inside. they do to predators and dogs.

I agree chickens are livestock....mine are treated as livestock but they don't live in filth. You are foolish if you think what you're doing is ok. I don't believe you don't lose birds in those conditions.

 

[lildinkem]

Why don't you talk to the people who have been here? Seen my birds. Been inside and out. I am open to anyone coming over. But they aren''t the ones doing all the KNOWITALL talking.
Birds in Indiana get just as dirty outside as inside. When it rains they got out and run arouund. In the mud. I am not putting pampers on my chickens to keep up with the clean freaks.

 

[lildinkem]

Quote:
Their livestock. lolololol IF I have dead birds I would agree. BUT, my birds don't die inside. they do to predators and dogs.

I agree chickens are livestock....mine are treated as livestock but they don't live in filth. You are foolish if you think what you're doing is ok. I don't believe you don't lose birds in those conditions.

For the record when was the last time you were at my house KATY? uh huh,,,,,,, NEVER!! lololol